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How Can I Help You Today? The Rise of Virtual Assistants in Human Resources Management
Get PDFThe pandemic context has fast-tracked the digital transformation of many organizations that pursued to dramatically change their organizational processes to survive in a global digital economy. While Virtual Assistants (VA), a specialized Artificial Intelligence-based chatbot, such as Alexa or Siri, have penetrated our private lives, many organizations are still trying to understand and evaluate why and how to integrate these technologies into their employees’ workday. Our study explores whether VAs can be used to support human resources (HR) trainee management software in a German organization and how it can be done. Four key HR areas of Self-Service, Onboarding, Training, and Knowledge Management were explored. Interviews were conducted to analyze which VAs’ functions can be reused to support trainee management software in these four areas. The technology affordances and constraints theory were used to analyze data collected. The results showed that a VA’s functions can support trainee’ management software especially in the areas of Self-Service, Onboarding and Training
The convergence of doubly stochastic Markov chains
Get PDFIn recent years, some interest has been devoted to studying doubly stochastic Markov chains. These chains appears naturally in many real-life applications such as quantum measurements. In this note, we proceed to characterize the asymptotic behavior of an homogeneous doubly stochastic Markov chains. In particular, we characterize the doubly stochastic matrices whose associated Markov chain (1) describes a cycle; (2) converges to a given matrix; and (3) diverges. We also provide a new sufficient condition for the infinite product of doubly stochastic matrice
Penser le sabotage à l’ère du capitalisme numérique
No full textCet article propose d’envisager la thèse suivante : le sabotage en tant que pratique de résistance qui consiste à endommager, perturber ou subvertir les opérations d’une machine ou d’une organisation, se retrouve à chaque forme institutionnelle du capitalisme. Trois types de sabotage sont envisagés pour penser cette pratique à l’ère du capitalisme numérique : le sabotage classique, le sabotage subtil et la résistance aux technosciences. Si le premier sabotage tend à disparaître des lieux de travail, le deuxième type consiste plutôt en la réappropriation des outils numériques pour des fins alternatives. La résistance aux technosciences correspond quant à elle au sabotage de l’idéalité cybernétique associée aux nouvelles machines algorithmiques, notamment le droit à la déconnexion et les pratiques de non-usage des technologies numériques
Analysis of a wood production strategy from expert perspectives
Get PDFIn 2020, Quebec adopted a strategy to increase the quantity and quality of timber it produces. During a roundtable discussion held in the fall of 2021, experts in forestry and in related fields expressed their views on the new strategy and its implementation challenges. The main purpose of this article is to present the key observations from the roundtable. The observations addressed two themes: the general context in which the strategy was developed, and the context of its implementation on the ground. Although most of the panellists agreed on the relevance of such a strategy, particularly as regards to climate change mitigation and wealth creation, several questions remain. The challenge of harmonizing uses, regionalization, spatialization of management decisions, labour shortage, and uncertain ecosystem dynamics make it difficult to assess the strategy’s potential impact on the ground and its ability to achieve its targets
Étude des effets affectifs et sémiotiques du langage ludique à partir des ludèmes, des mécaniques de jeu et des mécanismes de jouabilité
Get PDFEn continuité avec les travaux sur les mécaniques signifiantes de jeu, nous proposons, dans le cadre de cet article, de rendre compte de la dimension expérientielle de la mécanique en développant une méthode de recherche à partir des effets affectifs et sémiotiques produits par l’interaction entre le jeu et les joueur.se.s. L’expérience ludique est alors considérée comme un acte de langage dialogique et immanent à un contexte d’émission et de réception entre les concepteur.rice.s et les joueur.se.s. Avec ce type d’approche communicationnelle et pragmatiste, le jeu est conçu comme un processus sémiotique interprétatif où les mécaniques agissent comme grammaire (plan syntaxique) afin de produire du sens (plan sémantique) propre à une situation (plan pragmatique). En divisant l’étude de l’expérience ludique en trois plans du langage, il devient possible de faire état non seulement des actions et rétroactions du système ludique, mais également des effets affectifs et sémiotiques du jeu actualisé dans un contexte à chaque fois renouvelé par les joueur.se.s
Epistemic Injustice as Affective Experience: Empirical Research on Volunteering and Civic Involvement in Quebec
No full textThe social turbulence of the recent years has revealed that, despite the progress over the past decades, deeply rooted injustice continues to persist in social interactions between people from different profiles and backgrounds. Social movements have formed to denounce situations of inequity, such as the MeToo and Black Lives Matter uprisings. While community-based organizations are often associated with these struggles for greater equity and better inclusion of all, we may wonder to what extent these organizations themselves reproduce forms of injustice in their participatory processes.
This research deals with a subtle form of injustice that is very present in our social interactions: epistemic injustice. It corresponds to moments when a person is prevented from enjoying their knowledge, skills, and experiences, at least to some extent, mainly because of the biases and prejudices conveyed about their assigned or chosen social groups. For example, epistemic injustice takes place whenever we do not take seriously the testimony of victims of sexual assault, presume that someone with a mental health problem is incoherent, or fail to assist a person who appears to be homeless.
As the first empirical study on this theme, the objective is to grasp the concrete effects of epistemic injustice on the affective and identity constitution of individuals, as well as their ability to contribute to their community-based organization. By interviewing directly volunteers and involved citizens who consider themselves to be part of minority groups, we can better understand how organizations can avoid repeating these injustices in the recruiting, participation, and engagement of their volunteers and members. The results show how situations of injustice derive from the meanings and affect they associate with their daily implications as volunteers or citizens
Benchmark, relative return, and asset pricing: An extension
Get PDFIn this working paper, we extend the benchmark asset pricing model of Bergeron (2021). We develop our extension model in two distinct situations. In the first case, we assume that the asset expected relative returns are identical. In the second case, we relax this restrictive assumption and suppose that these expected values could be unequal. This suggests that a benchmark asset pricing model can be built in different contexts
Le concept de dyslexie ... est-il encore pertinent?
Get PDFLa définition de la dyslexie et son étiologie ont été sujettes à diverses controverses et ont subi de multiples révisions depuis la naissance de ce concept (Maia et al., 2017 ; Peterson et Pennington, 2015). Au cours des 30 dernières années, de nombreux auteurs ont soulevé régulièrement la faiblesse du concept de dyslexie et l'inconsistance de sa définition et de son étiologie. Nous présentons l'évolution du concept de dyslexie et nous revenons sur certaines de ces avenues infirmées et rejetées au cours des 125 dernières années. Nous indiquons deux avenues qui semblent nettement plus prometteuses pour l'identification et le traitement des élèves en difficulté d'apprentissage de la lecture